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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
astral
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astral bodies
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▪ A mahogany breakfast table sold at £200; an astral glazed pine cupboard £200 and a marble top washstand £180.
▪ As with astral travel, some talk of being linked to their physical bodies by a filmy cord.
▪ But even these alienated loners can benefit from this book: See the section on astral love.
▪ Classic dissociative phenomena include out-of-the-body experiences, astral travel, near-death- and rebirth-type experiences.
▪ Man has three bodies, the physical, the astral and the causal which overlie and interpenetrate each other.
▪ Occultists and some clairvoyants claim that this is the astral body.
▪ The astral body, also known as the emotional body, reflects most of the auric colouring.
▪ The astral telepath would die in any case when exterminatus arrived.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Astral

Astral \As"tral\, a. [L. astralis, fr. astrum star, Gr. ?: cf. F. astral. See Star.]

  1. Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.

    Shines only with an astral luster.
    --I. Taylor.

    Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer.
    --Dryden.

  2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as, astral rays; astral sphere.

  3. (Theosophy) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits; astral bodies of persons; astral current; the astral plane.

    Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained.

    Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the a["e]rial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
astral

"pertaining to the stars," c.1600, from Late Latin astralis, from Latin astrum "star," from Greek astron (see astro-). Meaning "pertaining to supersensible substances" is from 1690s, popularized late 19c. in Theosophy.

Wiktionary
astral

a. 1 Relating to or resembling the stars; starry. 2 (context biology English) Relating to an aster. 3 (context parapsychology theosophy English) Relating to a supposed supersensible substance taking the form of an aura discernible to certain gifted individuals.

WordNet
astral

adj. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light" [syn: stellar]

Wikipedia
Astral

Astral may refer to:

Astral (band)

Astral is a shoegaze group based in San Francisco, California. Astral was formed by singer- guitarist Dave Han and drummer Shawn in 1999; bassist Amy Rosenoff joined them in 2001. Their vocals are frequently compared to those of The Cure; other influences include My Bloody Valentine and Joy Division. Their music is of an ethereal, melodic nature; this ambient sound is created largely by heavy use of distortion and feedback effects in Han's guitar. Astral are also notable for incorporating improvisation into their live performances. In 2002, Astral released a self-produced EP, "Only Sometimes". In 2003, Astral released an LP, entitled "Orchids". Two songs from that album, "Raining Down" and the title-track instrumental, were preloaded in the Rio Carbon MP3 Players. In 2008 the band released their second album Sleepwalker.

Astral (1923 automobile)

The Astral was a car built from 1923 to 1924 by Hertford Engineering Co Ltd, Barking, then in Essex (now in east London), England.

Only one model was made, the 12/40, and although it was short-lived, it had many advanced features. The engine, made in-house, was a 1720 cc four-cylinder with a single overhead camshaft, and the car had brakes on all four wheels. It cost £365 for a two-seater and £375 for a four/five-seat tourer. The number made is not known.

Astral (wrestler)

Astral is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in their Mini-Estrella division, which does not necessarily mean that Fantasy is a dwarf as several wrestlers who are just shorter in stature work in the "Mini" division. Astral's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. Astral is one of a limited number of Mini-Estrellas who's ring character is not based on the character of a wrestler from the regular division. He is the reigning CMLL World Mini-Estrella Champion.

Usage examples of "astral".

The bird would snatch his nightmares from him as he dreamed them and then fly with them to the Astral Grotto where they would be incinerated by Manck, the celestial blacksmith, in his essential furnace.

I recalled, before there was any actual fatality, the National Astral Spellcraft Administration had grown smart for the nonce and consulted the local Indians.

By then, twilight had faded into night, and the astral tides, which influence the flux offerees in the etheric plane, had settled down after their change from the dominance of Fire to the dominance of Water, a change that marks the coming of night.

A few moments later, the great panther was running off through the planar tunnel to its astral home, and Drizzt moved along the trails leading to the human village and his answers.

It was how long the probes needed to provide their blanket of protective energy, erected between the pulsar and the endangered planet as both astral bodies made their way through the void.

Runi Sarif, who was running an older-established sect, the Pan-European Astral Confederation of Healers.

When the electrical, Astral, and orgonomic vibrations of the American Medical Association, amplified by the synergetic clusters of sound, image, and emotional energy of all these young people responding to the beat, bring that Nazi legion back to life, it will call for nothing less than the appearance on the field of battle of the goddess Eris Herself to save the day.

He had wanted to share these astral experiences directly and not just through the unsensitive minds of dragons.

Time and again, Miss Climpson had listened while the apparatus of planes and controls, correspondences and veridical communications, astral bodies, auras and ectoplastic materialisations was displayed before her protesting intelligence.

She was still woozy, as she tended to be after astral separation, but knew she had to report quickly.

For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.

Highly evolved souls or old souls who had lived many lives had pillars that nearly reached the high astral realms.

Dame Callan, as Defender of the Pillars of Light, Champion of the Astral Plane.

As they said goodbye, she considered asking the doctor if he knew what Rosemary meant by Defender of the Pillars of Light and Champion of the Astral Plane, and enlisting him in her efforts to get Sam to agree to a trip to the Astral plane right away.

Rosemary had said that the pillars often moved about the astral plane on their own enigmatic errands.